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The Embroidered Tablecloth: How Locale Influences Eastern European Jewish Textile Production, Elena Solomon
The Embroidered Tablecloth: How Locale Influences Eastern European Jewish Textile Production, Elena Solomon
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Recent scholarship frames craft as distinct from art and as an encapsulation of cultural expression at a given moment. Building on that framework, this thesis analyzes the shifting attitudes towards the production of handmade textiles among Eastern European Jews in the US in the twentieth century, as influenced by their migration. To demonstrate the textile environment at that time, this thesis examines pre- and post-migration primary sources and autobiographical writing, including Mary Antin’s The Promised Land, supplemented with interviews of first- and second-generation immigrants to Chicago. In contrast with stereotypes about craft as historically stable, defining craft as regional …
Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills
Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills
Masters Theses
Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 2, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., Robert Troy Boyer, Amos Long Jr., Christine M. Mueseler, Catherine Anne Jacobs, Hugo A. Freund
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 2, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., Robert Troy Boyer, Amos Long Jr., Christine M. Mueseler, Catherine Anne Jacobs, Hugo A. Freund
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Occupational Folklife
• A Fine-Tooth Comb: Atlee Crouse Carries on a Family Tradition
• "Lime and Manure": Agricultural Practices Among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Alcoa, New Kensington: "It was More Than a Job - It was a Way of Life"
• Women's Work: Textile Manufacturing in the Lackawanna Valley
• Working the Seams: African American Professional Performers Moving Between White Public Culture and African American Private Culture
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 3, Karl J. R. Arndt, Donald Graves, Michael Colby, Paul Mcgill, Nancy K. Gaugler, Harry E. Chrisman, William T. Parsons
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 3, Karl J. R. Arndt, Donald Graves, Michael Colby, Paul Mcgill, Nancy K. Gaugler, Harry E. Chrisman, William T. Parsons
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• The First German Broadside and Newspaper Printing of the American Declaration of Independence
• An Overview of Flax and Linen Production in Pennsylvania
• A Civil War Soldier's Tale
• Samuel W. Pennypacker's Translation of the Haslibacher Hymn
• An Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. Sarah Hunter
• In Memoriam: Earl F. Robacker, 1904-1985
• Aldes un Neies / Old & New
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 2, Peter C. Merrill, Theodore Graham Corbett, Cynthia Arps Corbett, Robert C. Williamson, Lee C. Hopple
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 2, Peter C. Merrill, Theodore Graham Corbett, Cynthia Arps Corbett, Robert C. Williamson, Lee C. Hopple
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Pennsylvania German Folk Crafts: The Living Tradition
• Europeans on the Frontier: Scotch-Irish Burial Stones in Pennsylvania
• The Survival of Pennsylvania German: A Survey of Berks and Lehigh Counties
• Germanic European Origins and Geographical History of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Schwenkfelders
• Aldes un Neies